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NachiketjIF-Stunnerz

As kid, I used to love watching the 1st 5 manache Ganapati on the Visarjan day and then the lighted and almost magical - agadi swargaat gelyasarkha - feel of Dagadusheth and Mandai Ganpati to end off the rally. It was like a holy ritual - as holy as pilgrimage . I used to envy the dnyanprabodhini kids participating in the miravanuk.

But then as the crowd increased and the only option was to walk from Lakshmi road to Mandai, the negative aspects of the folks participating in the Visarjan miravanuk were witnessed and I just despised going into that crowd. I did not go to the miravanuk once I went to College, unless someone came from Mumbai and we were forcibly pulled into the parade. The good thing was my Mavashi and atya lived in Narayan Peth, so we could go back and forth between Lakshmi Road and their house instead of camping on the road and torturing ourselves in the crowd.

BTW...yeh tumhara channel hai kya NJ?

I still love it Punyatla Ganesh utsavacha thaat kahi aurch asto...And I've promised by colleagues this time a visit to Punyache manache Ganpati..lets c how does it work out

@bold - I recd those videos and I uploaded one of them on YouTube, so u can say my channel on YouTube par mera channel MTV se jyaada achha hai na?

.Neela.Goldie

I still love it Punyatla Ganesh utsavacha thaat kahi aurch asto...And I've promised by colleagues this time a visit to Punyache manache Ganpati..lets c how does it work out

@bold - I recd those videos and I uploaded one of them on YouTube, so u can say my channel on YouTube par mera channel MTV se jyaada achha hai na?

@Bold: Agree. Aapla Pune aahe naa te??!!

What I cannot tolerate apart from the dhakka bukki in the crowd is the puke-worthy offensive smell of the drunkyards!!! And the abhorrent sick mentality of men wanting to take advantage of the women

I hope some channel telecasts the visarjan live for folks like me who prefer to sit on the couch and watch.

In NYC too, the Ganesh temple (Flushing, Queens) has a huge ratha yatra on the Visarjan day, which has much less crowd compared to the India day parade (15th August) or the July 4th parade/ Thanks Giving day parade / NYE crowd. I have not participated in any, I just sit at home and watch on TV .

mishkil88IF-Sizzlerz

SW: i went to turkey about 18 yrs back and stayed in instanbul for 3 months. I remember bosphorous, topkapu palace & taxim suburb. I was amazed by modern life style and must say istanbul is as good as any european city.

spashta-waktaGoldie

SW: i went to turkey about 18 yrs back and stayed in instanbul for 3 months. I remember bosphorous, topkapu palace & taxim suburb. I was amazed by modern life style and must say istanbul is as good as any european city.

We spent 10-odd days but drove a lot. From Izmir, we went to Efesus, Afrodisias, Pamukkale, Termessos, Olympos/ Cirali, Antalya, Aspendos, Side, Konya, Cappadoccia (Goreme), Kayseri and finally Istanbul. Loved every bit of it. The Turkish language has so many words we use in Hindi (maidan, Murda & so on). Their food (& fruits) is very good (even for vegetarians like us) and their sweets (baklava) are also excellent. The archaeological sites we visited were stupendous too. Istanbul is a wonderful place indeed and the Kapali Charsi (the covered bazaar) is a shoppers' delight.

anni80Goldie

Coming back to politIcs thisbis the reply by CM of Mharadhtra to the open letter by journalist Rajdeep Sardesai...

Have a look... its translated one... i will try to post image of marathi letter...

Devendra Fadnavis CM of Maharashtra replies via open letter to constipated pseudo liberal Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai's open letter and what an answer.Hope all other CM's and Ministers of BJP expose these Journalist same way.

Dear Rajdeep,

Normally I don't reply to every open letter by senior' journalists but this time I thought if I didn't, the Goebbels law " speak what is untrue several times over and it becomes the truth " may prevail. Your letter is an excellent example of how a section of the media, without having sound knowledge, bashes a government with an agenda.

Let me bring some clarity to the first issue you have raised. My state government did not take the decision to ban meat. Not a single new order went from the government to any local body. The Congress government in 2004 took the decision to close a slaughter-house for two days in Paryushan Parva. It was conveyed to all municipal corporations then. Since then all municipal corporations including Mira-Bhaindar started implementing it. Additionally municipal corporations like Mumbai and Mira-Bhaindar adopted resolutions to ban it for additional days within their own powers, which in the case of Mumbai dates back to 1994. Surprisingly, none of you ever objected to it until we came to power. Obviously you were comfortable with the pseudo-secular image of the previous government, howsoever corrupt and non-performing it was.

It's quite possible that you know this but it doesn't suit your agenda.

In the case of Rakesh Maria, you seem to be confused. Your post-script says the Sheena Bora murder case should not have assumed the kind of importance it was accorded by the media. Then why did you choose to write on it, linking it with the transfer of the city police chief? A police chief is not an investigating officer but just a supervisory authority. I would like to tell you that the practice of promoting senior people, a few days in advance, is not new. Such decisions are taken keeping in mind the objective to let the new one who is going to take over understand the prevailing situation. The months of September and October are full of festivals, including the Ganesh Festival, Eid celebrations and Navratri.

If the government thought that instead of changing a police commissioner in the midst of festivities it was better to put a new person in place before the festive season started, what's so wrong about it? Although I believe that officers have no caste and religion the point could also have been raised as to why Maria was made commissioner of police, Mumbai, sidelining two senior and equally decorated officers like Ahmad Javed, a person from a minority community, and Vijay Kamble, a person from a backward community. However, I would say that the government at that point of time thought that Maria was better suited for the situation.

Your take on sedition can be termed a classic product of a biased mind. I want to ask you whether the state is expected to convey a decision given by the hon'ble high court to the police or not? Again, not a single decision has been taken by our government in this regard. In one of the cases in the high court, an affidavit was filed by the then Congress-led government and the court delivered a detailed judgment interpreting the scope and ambit of the applicability of sedition, and also directed to convey it to the police. The department made a faithful translation of the judgment in Marathi and conveyed it to all the police stations via an office circular. Every single item in the circular is just a translation of the judgment. Mr Sardesai, you may not want to go through such details to understand the issue just because you wish to pursue your leftist agenda vigorously and passionately.

It's apparent how much pain it causes you to mention a word about the water conservation initiative of our government " the flagship programme of Jalyukta Shivar Yojna " to make Maharashtra drought-free. It is a programme that has become most successful. The generous contributions by people " more than Rs 300 crore " have helped us to execute nearly 100,000 works in 6,000 villages within six months. The results are evident. Despite the scanty rainfall, the villages are boasting distributed water storages and increased water tables. It was lauded as a game changer by the Jalpurush' of India, Rajendra Singh, at the Stockholm Water Conference. This programme will provide moisture security to the farmers and assure crop sustainability by mitigating the effects of climate change.

It's really sad to see that people like you get disturbed by an imaginary situation that there won't be a piece of meat in your platter for two days when my annadata is taking extreme steps because he has no food to eat. That is why the state has decided to implement a food security scheme for six million farmers by giving them wheat at Rs 2 per kg and rice at Rs 3 per kg. The infamous legacy of farmer suicides, which we inherited from 15 years of bad governance, is a challenge that doesn't let me sleep. But the initiatives started by our government, I'm sure, will deliver results in due course.

Whether there is a ban on meat or not, a common man expects roti or rice in his plate. And I am more concerned about it than anything else. Mr Sardesai, the content of your letter can be part of your profession but the resolve in my reply is my mission and I will accomplish it. My mantra of life is perform or perish' and time alone would decide my destiny.

spashta-waktaGoldie

Until the results of the 2014 LS elections were declared, it seemed the entire English media (both print and TV) was acting as the paid agents of the ruling party and their reportage was totally biased and one-sided. After the stunning victory of NaMo, they realized which way the wind was blowing and softened their stands. In some cases, the channels changed ownership and biased, paid media agents like Rajdeep, his wife Sagarika had to leave their jobs. But they have continued to spew venom from new pulpits and now that Rajdeep has a much reduced role on TV, he has resorted to lying through print media.

I don't mind megalomaniac Arnab so much. He is just full of himself and a bully, but shrewd people with an agenda like Rajdeep are much, much worse. The sooner people like him and Burqa Dutt lose their voice the better. They are still acting like agents of the previous rulers.

Devendra's letter is the tight slap Rajdeep fully deserved. I am glad it's all over WhatsApp and print media. Does the man have no shame?

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